Steven Zeitchik

Writer

Steven Zeitchik is a Los Angeles Times staff writer who has been covering film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper since 2009, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all.

Recent Articles

In chatting with Julianne Moore for her (now Oscar-winning) turn in the drama "Still Alice" a little while ago, I’d asked what it was like to star in that film so close to the Hollywood satire “Maps to the Stars.” The two pieces, after all, are about as tonally different as...

The news this week that Richard Linklater could be tackling Maria Semple's bestselling "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" was greeted, among those who follow such things, with unbridled happiness. Here was one of the most ‎well-regarded novels -- and, more important, one of the most...

Depending on your point of view (or maybe on whether you're Neil Patrick Harris), Edward Snowden‎’s actions could be read very differently: The former NSA contractor is either, in the end, a dangerous traitor or a laudable hero.

Neil Patrick Harris' uneven performance at the Oscars on Sunday ("bombing … atrophied ... airless,” and those were some of the kinder assessments) raised the question that comes up nearly every late winter, as the endless circuit of judging the year’s best movies...

In a filmmaking career spanning nearly 40 years, Errol Morris has helped liberate a Texas man accused of murder, re-examined the photographs of Abu Ghraib and put the screws to former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.